Word: battledress
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...Clad in Australian Army battledress, toting a machine gun and surrounded by armed bodyguards, Reinado says he will never lay down his weapons: "Why? Who does this [gun] belong to? It doesn't belong to Xanana [Gusmão, the new Prime Minister] or Horta. It belongs to the people of this country." Besides, he adds, many others have illicit weapons. "What do they do about those people...
...announcement at Midway that 25,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn this summer. Last week they flew in nine C-141 StarLifter transports to McChord Air Force Base in Washington. As bystanders clapped and called out "Thank you! Thank you!" they paraded proudly through downtown Seattle, their jungle green battledress stained dark by a pelting rainstorm. Said one exuberant captain: "We would have marched in snow...
...Marines waited silently on the darkening slopes of Cyprus' 6,000-ft. Troodos Mountains. Peering through binoculars they watched a village woman .slowly climb a pine-covered hillside, drop her bulky load and return the way she had come. Sten guns at the ready, the marines in camouflaged battledress leaped swiftly from their lookout and arrived just in time to round up seven E.O.K.A. terrorists who had moved down to collect their supplies...
...crucial decision took place the night Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, alarmed by threats to his power, returned from Washington with $105 million in U.S. economic aid. Ali's plane touched down at Karachi's airfield, where soldiers in battledress were drawn up, ostensibly to honor him. A crowd of perhaps 5,000 people had gathered, and to them Ali made a brief speech on his success with the Americans. "How about the crisis?" a reporter intervened. "What crisis?" answered Mohammed Ali with a grin...
...Viets said in French for our doctors, orderlies and walking wounded to form column, and they led them away. They later took away our nurse, Miss de Galard.* She looked as unafraid as ever. I also saw the Viets taking General de Castries. He was wearing his mudstained battledress and his red overseas cap. He looked detached and impassive. He climbed into a jeep between two heavily armed Viet soldiers, and was driven away...